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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · taught by jwillcoxon · returned 6 results
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THEA 110 Beginning Acting 6 credits
Introduces students to fundamental acting skills, including preliminary physical training, improvisational techniques, and basic scene work. The course includes analysis of plays as bases for performance, with a strong emphasis on characterization.
Extra Time
- Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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THEA 110.01 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Jeanne Willcoxon 🏫 👤
- Size:16
- M, WWeitz Center 172 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 172 2:20pm-3:20pm
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Sophomore Priority
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THEA 190 Carleton Players Production 1 credits
Each term students may participate in one Players production, a hands-on, faculty-supervised process of conceptualization, construction, rehearsal, and performance. Credit is awarded for a predetermined minimum of time on the production, to be arranged with faculty. Productions explore our theatre heritage from Greek drama to new works. Students may participate through audition or through volunteering for production work.
- Fall 2023, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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THEA 199 Theater Practicum 3 credits
This course is designed for students who have major responsibilities in Carleton Players productions as Stage Managers, Actors and Designers. Students enrolled in this class will have more responsibility and be expected to commit to more time than the students registered in Theater 190, including additional time for research, design and role preparation. Students in this course will get in-depth learning experiences in the processes most central to the discipline; the creation of performances. Students will waitlist for the course; enrollment in the course will be by instructor’s permission depending on the responsibilities students have.
Waitlist only
- Fall 2023, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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Waitlist only, instructors permission required
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THEA 227 Theatre for Social Change 6 credits
This class is an examination of significant artists who use theatre as a tool for envisioning and enacting social change. We will study the justice-making strategies of a variety of artists, including Augusto Boal, Cherríe Moraga, Anna Deavere Smith, among many other contemporary artists whose work continues to shape American society. We will also examine influential methods of using theatre for social change, including documentary theatre, Theatre of the Oppressed, theatre for young audiences, and theatre in prisons. The class will include a number of guest artist visits from people making work in the field. The final project will be an original theatrical creation that uses the strategies studied in class to address a contemporary social issue.
Extra Time
- Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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THEA 227.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Jeanne Willcoxon 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 172 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 172 2:20pm-3:20pm
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THEA 228 Performing Women 6 credits
Through a performance studies lens, this course analyzes performances of gender and race in American theatre, focusing on female-identified artists of color. Our starting questions are: How do we read “woman” on stage and how have artists disrupted or supported dominant understandings of “woman” through theatrical performances? Additionally, how have artists intentionally challenged this gender binary in performance? Among other artists, we examine the work of Angelina Weld Grimké, Kristina Rae Colón. Larissa FastHorse, Teatro Luna, Young Jean Lee, and Aditi Brennan Kapil. At the end of the course students move from an analysis of performance to creation of their own performance pieces.
- Winter 2024
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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THEA 228.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Jeanne Willcoxon 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 233 10:10am-11:55am
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THEA 345 Devised Theater and Collective Creation 6 credits
A usual evening in the theater consists of seeing a text–the play–staged by a director and performed by actors. While this is certainly a collaborative endeavor, recent decades have seen a marked increase in “devised theater,” a mode intended to upset the traditional hierarchies of theatrical production. In practical terms, this means the abandonment of the extant text in favor of a performance “score”–sometimes textual, often physical–developed improvisationally in rehearsal by the performers. This course will explore the methods and approaches used to work in this collective and highly creative manner, and will culminate in a public performance. We will also discuss the history and cultural politics that inform devised practice.
- Fall 2023
- Arts Practice
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Theater 110 or Dance 150 or 190 or instructor permission
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THEA 345.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Jeanne Willcoxon 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 172 3:10pm-4:55pm